St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-02
DULUTH MATTERS.
Yesterdays Record of Events in
and About the Zenith City.

IeStcrOay'S RECORD OF Events IN
and About the Zenith City.
Special to the Globe
DULUTH, Mimi, Nov. 1.-Sam Brown,
of the firm of Huntress & Brown, came
in to-day upon the tug Record with the
last tow Of logs of the season from the
south shore. These gentlemen have
had pretty tough time driving and
rafting logs upon the river this summer
through the low stage of water which
has prevailed upon nearly every stream
in the state, but they have managed to
get 10000 feet to Peck's mill.
At the United States land Office this
morning large number of filings were
made in the twenty to thirty and thirty
to forty-mile indemnity limits of the
Northern Pacific road. These lands
were decided by the secretary of the
interior as forfeited by the railroad
company and filings were allowed made
to-day. The road announces that it will
fight all claimants to its land as well as
the decisions of the department. Filings
were made to-day as far west as range
%. the western limit of this land dis
trict.
A gentleman from Yellow Medicine
county named Nyhune, who came here
with some stock for sale, seems to have
had varied experience. He is stock
raiser at Candy and wished to trade with
Duluth instead of Chicago. He and
some of the neighbors pooled issues and
made up herd of twenty-five cattle.
After driving them to Benson he shipped
them over the Manitoba to Duluth. AT
Hinckley the troubles began. The car
with the stock was sidetracked for sew
enteen hours, and he could not feed or
water them, getting them into poor con-
ditiOn. When he reached Duluth he
found the butchers stocked, and finding
no sale he gave the proprietor of The
slaughter house 81 per head to slaughter
them. He hired wagon and under
took to peddle the meat out by quarters.
Soon after coming he was arrested for
violation of the peddler'S license and
was required to take out license, which
cost him $40. Nyhune says he came to
Duluth to work up trade with our peo-
pie, and thinks that the treatment
shown him is not such as to encourage
him or his neighbors to come again.
w. III. Parker, bOokKeeper for the
granite QuarrieS at HinSdale, upon the
Duluth & Iron Range railroad, was in
town to-day. and said that the contract
for the stone for the Chicago court
house was now very nearly filled. The
job has taken very nearly 250,0 square
feet of granite from these splendid
quarrieS, and even this enormous
amount of material has been no more
than sufficient to make suitable face
upon one of the gray granite Quarries.
Work is now being pushed to fill the
contract for all the granite required on
ChieagO's other great building, the Chi
Wv
kept hard at work getting out large
blocks needed for this work. There is
little doubt but that these GuarrieS will
soon become as important factor to
the prosperity of Duluth as the iron
mines at Tower are. 1t has been limited
that if inducements were offered to the
quarry company they would locate large
stone works at Duluth, but no steps
have been taken to secure this great
and growing industry.
This morning the county auditors Of
flee was we'll filed with lumbermen
from all over the state who had gathered
for the purpose of bidding on the sale of
government pine lands, which had been
advertised to take place. At 10 O'Clock
the terms of sale were made known and
bidding was started at S1.14. the APP
praised value of the land. Bidding was
then active up to So per 200 feet, where
a large number of contestants for the
property stopped bidding, although two
or three kept on. 1t finally reached
S3.73, the price offered by John McKin-
ley. and the whole amount of land was
knocked down to him at that figure,
The land is in town 50, range IA, anG
near the Duluth & Iron Range railroad.
1t embraces seventy fortieS, making
total of 2,S00 acres. The reason why
large number of bidders did not 60
higher in their offers was because tho
did not think that the pine could be GU.
handled, sawed and shipped TO Duluth
at an expense small enough to guaran-
tee profit. Mckinley has five years
time in which to clear the pine Off and
thinks that by that time better facilities
can be had for the transportation of
lumber to Duluth. He has given secur-
ity to State Auditor Braden for fulfill
ing the contract and will commence
work the coming winter. Mckinley.
when asked whether he was acting as
principal or agent, said he would say
later just what his plans were, but that
at present he could not give anything
away. The opinion of most of the lum
bermen present seemed to be that the
price paid was very high and that the
lumber scarcely warranted the price
paid.
MERELY MENTIONED.
Col COlville. register of the United States
land office, has returned from Red Wing He
says this talk of appointing him superintend-
ent ofthe soldiers home at Minnehaha is
entirely the work of others, and he knows
nothing about it.
Bids for 800, 900 worth of coupon city
bonds of 81 900 each will be opened next
Monday. The principal is payable in twenty,
five years from to-day. (Nov. l, 1880 and
the interest is ) per cent per annum.
curious mixing up of portable signs, the
overturning of Outhouses and some unhinged
gates marked the fact that Dnluth's young
people had not forgotten "All Halloween
night.
cutting affair occurred last night, or early
this morning, on Lake avenue, in which
man named Wilson received some dangerous
slashes about the face and body.
Ten lots in the town of Ely were sold Mon
day to Louis Rocheleau. Capt. Pengilly was
the seller and the price realized was $1,000
cash.
The city is being extensively sued by vari
Gus parties for damages arising from the
Michigan street improvement.
Tomorrow evening the cantata of 1.-The
Holy City will be given at st. Paul's Epi CO.
pal church.
Senator Whfteman is back in the city after
a month absence in New York.
w W b a len. state auditor, is in the city.
HARRIsoN's REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE.
Harrison's real estate exchange has over
$50, 600 inside property in Superior. Can
he hor5obf al opa-third Of IFS real Valup as il